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Great Mother is a cross-genre category for books that explore the maternal archetype and its many expressions—from ancient goddess traditions and Indigenous cosmologies to contemporary stories of caregiving and kinship. Bringing together mythology, religion, anthropology, psychology, ecofeminism, history, memoir, and literature, these works consider the mother as life-giver, nurturer, protector, and at times destroyer-renewer. Core themes include creation and fertility, birth and loss, lineage and inheritance, embodiment and the land (Mother Earth), rites and rituals, and the social realities and politics of mothering. Encompassing mythic retellings, Jungian analyses, cultural studies, and narratives of biological, adoptive, foster, step, and chosen families—including queer and trans perspectives—Great Mother invites readers to reflect on how maternal power shapes identity, community, and our relationship with the living world.

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